Edgar Geoffrey Stanley Hose (22 Jul 1867 - 21 Oct 1943) was an English international hockey player.
Edgar Hose was born in Camberwell, then in Surrey, the second son of John and Maria Henley Robinson.[1] His mother died before he was ten years old, and his widowed father married for a second time, to Jemima Closs Fieldwick. From this second marriage, Edgar gained two younger brothers, Henry Fieldwick Hose and Arthur Steains Hose[2] He had a younger sister, Mary, (born in 1870). Edgar's father, throughout this period, was involved in the manufacture of linen. Hose was educated at Dulwich College.
As a hockey player he played at outside-right and represented Bromley, Kent, South of England, and England[3] In 1897, Hose made his first appearance for the England national field hockey team against Ireland, and went on to play for them twice in 1899 (against ireland and Wales).[4]
He remained involved in hockey after he had ceased to play the game. In 1899 he wrote a chapter in J. Nicholson Smith and Philip A. Robson's Hockey: historical and practical, his chapter being dedicated to his position of Outside-right. In this publication he stated that: "Outside-right has been justly called the easiest place to fill satisfactorily in a hockey team.".[5] He later became the honorary secretary to the All England Women's Hockey Association (AEWHA) in 1899[6] just four years after the founding of that association.
Edgar married Kate in 1893 and they had a daughter, Dorothy Enid.[7] Edgar Hose died on 21 Oct 1943 aged 76, his death being registered in Cheltenham.[8]